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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

Simon Cowell

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium.” (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'”Eight Days A Week.)
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Country Eight Idols Season
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.
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Hated Lecturing People
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
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Competition Frustrated Mean
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns
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Buns Criticism Hamburgers
Most things in music go full circle eventually.
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Circles Full Circle
You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.
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Hate Mosquitoes Want
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought, what am I doing this for? I don’t ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.’
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Jobs Lessons Want
Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
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Ego Littles Much Times Too
I didn’t have any qualifications when I left school – I had three O-levels.
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Levels School Three
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it’s an ‘I’, I make sure it’s a capital.
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Capital Punctuation Stills
I’ve always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn’t like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.
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Boss Salary Wanted
I’m a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you’re OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.
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Better Feel Mind Play
I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don’t have time for them. I can’t make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.
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People Phones Stuff
It’s not our intention to be mean. That’s just within us.
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Country Intention Mean People
I’ve learned to deal with stress much better now, things don’t bother me in the way that they once used to.
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Country Learned People Stress Way
My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
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Advice Business Careers
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.
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Country Home People Safe
Rules equal boredom, and I don’t like that.
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Boredom Equal Rules
They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don’t want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.
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Artist Country People Song Understand Years
I break up very well. I am a good breaker-upper.
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Break Broken Hearted Moving
I’d say the most dangerous thing I’ve ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand…
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Done Jumping Thailand
Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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People Perfect Thinking
There’s one argument that says we shouldn’t be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you’ve got to take it case by case.
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Age Country Kids People Thinking
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he’s a genius.
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Actors Genius Thinking
Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
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Girl Kindness Zero
There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
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Married Needs Stories
I’m obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.
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Addiction Baths Sometimes Three

I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

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I don’t want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that’s what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.

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